art

What is the main advantage of using oil paint over other paint media?

. It dries slower allowing for more naturalistic development.

Where is the focal point in Giotto's Lamentation?

. Jesus' head

The device invented in the sixteenth century as a means of capturing images from the natural world is called

. camera obscura.

Sound was introduced into film in what year?

1927

Color was introduced into film in what year?

1939

Where did Picasso draw inspiration for the faces of the female figures on the right side of the composition of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

African ritual masks

The word paper is derived from

Egyptian papyrus

Which artwork was described as "an explosion in a shingle factory

Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase

Which process best describes intaglio printing

The area that prints is below the surface of the plate

Historically, why do many people receive new and innovative work with reservation

They have little context in which to view the work. intensity or saturation.

The organization of visual elements in an artwork is called

a composition

Carving would be best described as

a subtractive process

When each side of a composition is exactly the same, it shows

absolute symmetry

Assemblage would be best described as

an additive process

an Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance is a perfect example of

an asymmetrically balanced composition

What is defined as the size of the opening in the lens when exposing a photograph to light?

aperture

Jan and Hubert van Eyck's The Ghent Altarpiece is an example of

artists giving form to the immaterial; hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces, personal feelings

Portraiture, such as John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres' Pat, is an example of

artists making a visual record of the people, places, and events of their time and place Correct

What is the substance in paint that holds the particles of pigment together and often defines the characteristics of the various painting media?

binder

Dry drawing media consists of coloring agents, which are mixed with what to hold them together?

binders

A typical material that an artist might cast is

bronze

In Käthe Kollwitz's Self-Portrait, Drawing, the artist has revealed the expressive capabilities of what medium?

charcoal

What was early paper in the West made of

cloth rags

A typical example of low-relief would be:

coin

Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary displays two aspects of the artist's life—his African heritage and what else?

his Catholic upbringing

Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express:

his proclivity for things seen but not examined.

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called:

iconography.

In Giacometti's Man Pointing, our eye is directed down his right arm and past his pointed finger to some imagined point of interest beyond. This is an example of which formal element?

implied line

When and where was printmaking first developed

in the 9th century in China

Whitfield Lovell's Whispers from the Walls is an example of

installation art.

A color's brightness or dullness is called its

intensity or saturation.

What is the main advantage of linocut over woodcut printmaking

it is easier to cut into linoleum than wood

What is the function of the nsiki nkonde figure?

it pursued wrongdoers at night and punished them when nails were driven into it Correct

Alexander Calder's "mobiles," like Untitled, move when air currents move through them, making them

kinetic

Sculpture that moves is called

kinetic

While in prison, Howling Wolf made many drawings called

ledger drawings

A popular drawing medium during the Renaissance consisted of a stylus of gold, silver, or other metal that was dragged across a prepared ground of lead white, bone, and water. This process was called

metalpoint

hen an artist uses a variety of materials in a sculpture, it could be described as

mixed media

In 1863, Edouard Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe was rejected by the public due to its

modernity

In Chapter 3, Sayre discusses two ways of valuing art. What are they?

monetary and intrinsic

When a work of art such as Kasimir Malevich's Black Square shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is usually called

nonrepresentational.

The painting process that allows for a continuous blending of tones and hues on the painting surface is called

oil painting.

Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective

one-point linear perspective

Monotype is unique among printmaking processes because it produces

only one print from the plate

In Steve DiBenedetto's Deliverance, the artist uses what to create a sense of space

overlapping images

Guillermo Gómez-Peña's The Temple of Confessions can be defined as what kind of art?

performance and installation

Because in lithography the printing surface is completely flat, it is referred to as

planographic

Considered a masterpiece of Renaissance art, Michelangelo's David came under attack upon first viewing due to its

political symbolism.

Sculpture that is meant to be viewed frontally is called

relief

The terms naturalistic or realistic art are sometimes used to describe

representational art

Repetition often implies monotony, yet it also creates a sense of

rhythm

Where does Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama draw inspiration for her work

rom very personal visual and existential experiences of her surroundings

The dimensions of an object, in relation to some constant, such as the human figure, are known as its

scale Correct

Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such buildings are praised for their:

self-sufficiency.

The drawings by William Cameron Menzies are examples of a vital part of the film-making process called

storyboards.

Rene Magritte's The Treason of Images asks us to consider

that images and words refer to things that we see, but are not the things themselves

Painting was largely considered a craft, lesser than other "arts" like poetry and music, until

the Renaissance

Which of these statements best defines visual literacy

the ability to recognize, understand, and communicate the meaning of visual images

Dodging and burning are darkroom processes by which the photographer can manipulate which aspect of a photo?

value

Nam June Paik was an innovator in which of these media?

video sculpture

What is yellow's complementary color?

violet

When dealing with balance in a two dimensional composition, an artist or designer is actually dealing with

visual weight

Maya Lin's Memorial in Washington, D.C

was controversial at first because of its non-traditional style.

When ink is diluted with water and applied in broad flat areas, the result is called a

wash

Winslow Homer's A Wall, Nassau was made using

watercolor washes.

What is the binder in "encaustic" painting?

wax

In a work of art, "content" refers to

what the work expresses or means

What printmaking technique was used in The Nuremberg Chronicle?

woodcut

Which of the following is an example of relief printmaking

woodcut

The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the:

Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.

Who drew Banana Flower?

Georgia O'Keeffe

hich of the following is a form of soft carbon discovered in England in 1564?

Graphite

The artist who felt that a cut line made with scissors could acquire more feeling than a pencil or charcoal was

Henri Matisse.

Sculpture that is meant to be seen from all sides is called

In-the-round

What is the content of Albert Bierstadt's Rocky Mountains?

It is a sublime representation of the mountain range that can be seen to encompass the spirit and character of the American West

What is the process that assures that the colors of a linocut or other relief print will align perfectly?

Registration

Which sculptor eventually saw his controversial work destroyed

Richard Serra

Still images from the film Battleship Potemkin demonstrate the montage technique of which filmmaker?

Sergei Eisenstein

Which of the following is not an aspect of texture

content

With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear

cooler and less distinct

The process of organizing the formal elements of art into a unified composition is called

design

According to Sayre what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?

eception, extraction, inference

What film process was D.W. Griffith was the first great master of?

editing

What is a term that describes an artist's attempt to draw our eyes to one area of a composition?

emphasis

If an artist pushes the point of a burin across a metal plate, forcing the metal up in slivers in front of the burin, the process is called

engraving.

In the Rubin vase illustration, the black shape can be seen alternately as a foreground object resembling a vase, or as a background space between two white profiled faces. What is this relationship called?

figure-ground reversal

Artists can create a sense of luminous materiality in oil painting by brushing thin films of transparent color onto the surface, a process called

glazing

When an artist paints with a mixture of watercolor pigment and Chinese white chalk, the process is called

gouache

Despite the success of the daguerreotype, the process had its drawbacks, primarily

hat the image could not be reproduced.

Proportion is defined as

he relationship between the parts to each other and the whole in a composition

Beatriz Milhazes' Carambola is based on

he shapes, forms, and bright colors of Brazilian culture

In her painting, Still Life with Lobster, Anna Vallayer-Coster establishes emphasis through

the manipulation of light and color.

What is it that motivates most collectors to buy contemporary art

the pleasure of owning art and the prestige it confers upon them

In a work of art, "form" refers to

the way it looks.

Paintings that consist of three painted panels, such as The Annunciation [Mérode Altarpiece] by Robert Campin, are called

triptychs.